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2 weeks ago | 
thedeck.news | Chris Davies |James D Ede |Ryan Whelan
West Midlands rivals Birmingham City and West Bromwich Albion will face each other in the Championship next season and are set to fight each other for the signing of a young Premier League attacker. Chris Davies and Ryan Mason were both part of Ange Postecoglou’s coaching staff in recent seasons and are now battling for the loan move of Spurs winger Mikey Moore.
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2 weeks ago | 
thedeck.news | James D Ede |Ryan Whelan
In the eyes of many, Chesterfield had a successful season in League Two upon their return to the EFL after six seasons in non-league. Had you offered Spireites fans a play-off position last summer, almost all would have snapped your hand off, and even more so after seeing the mid-season injury crisis the club suffered. However, Paul Cook and his team of coaches will be targeting automatic promotion in 2025/26 and will need to make several improvements to the squad to achieve a top-three finish.
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3 weeks ago | 
thedeck.news | James D Ede |Ryan Whelan
Former Manchester United and England midfielder Michael Carrick has left his position as head coach of Championship side Middlesbrough after they failed to reach the play-offs. The 43-year-old, who took over from Chris Wilder in 2022, led the club to the top six in his first season in charge but came up short against Coventry City in the semi-finals.
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3 weeks ago | 
thedeck.news | Chris Davies |Phil Parkinson |Noel Hunt |James D Ede |Ryan Whelan
Newly-promoted Wrexham and Birmingham City are reportedly eyeing up Reading midfielder Charlie Savage following the two sides’ promotions to the Championship. The teams, who finished in the top two positions in League One in the 2024/25 season, are set to compete against fellow second-tier outfits Blackburn Rovers and Portsmouth for the signing of the young Welshman.
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1 month ago | 
thedeck.news | James D Ede |Ryan Whelan
Chesterfield fans have suffered play-off heartbreak far too often throughout the club’s history. Firstly in 1990, when Dion Dublin scored the only goal of the game for Cambridge United to secure promotion from the Fourth Division, and more recently in 2015, when a 4-0 defeat to Preston North End ended the club’s hopes of back-to-back promotions. There were then three consecutive failed campaigns in the National League, which ultimately preceded the 2023/24 title-winning season.
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1 month ago | 
thedeck.news | James D Ede |Ryan Whelan
Shoaib Bashir fought off his critics to spin England to an innings victory over Zimbabwe in the first Test of the home summer. The 21-year-old off-spinner took second-innings figures of 6/81 as the travelling side fell to an innings and 45-run defeat in their first match on English soil for 22 years.
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1 month ago | 
thedeck.news | James D Ede |Ryan Whelan
Indian cricketing legend Virat Kohli has announced his retirement from Test cricket at the age of 36. The former captain follows his successor, Rohit Sharma, who also bowed out from the longest format five days ago, in stepping away from the team shortly before their five-match series in England this summer. Kohli played 123 Tests and scored 9,230 runs, making him the fourth-highest-scoring Indian in the game’s history, before confirming his decision to retire in an Instagram post.
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2 months ago | 
thedeck.news | James D Ede |Ryan Whelan
Yorkshire batter Harry Brook has been named as England’s new ODI and T20 captain, replacing Jos Buttler, who resigned after the dismal Champions Trophy display. The 26-year-old had been Buttler’s deputy and skippered the side in their autumn 50-over series against Australia at home, which they lost 3-2. The announcement comes over five weeks since Buttler’s resignation and puts an end to rumours that Test captain Ben Stokes would be taking over in the 50-over format.
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Mar 24, 2025 | 
thedeck.news | James D Ede |Ryan Whelan
The 2025 English county cricket season begins on 4 April when 18 counties will play across Divisions One and Two of the Rothesay County Championship. Lancashire will be one of the biggest teams playing in the second tier after relegation in 2024 and will face Derbyshire, Gloucestershire, Glamorgan, Leicestershire, Northamptonshire, Middlesex and Kent. Head coach Dale Benkenstein will desperately need his side to return to Division One after an extremely disappointing season.
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Mar 22, 2025 | 
thedeck.news | James D Ede |Ryan Whelan
The 2025 English county cricket season begins on 4 April when 18 counties will play across Divisions One and Two of the Rothesay County Championship. One of the teams playing in the second tier will be Kent, who finished bottom of Division One last season and were relegated with Lancashire.
